A person
having the custody, charge, care, or control of another person, who inflicts
unnecessary cruelty upon such person, or unnecessarily and cruelly fails to
provide such person with proper food, drink, shelter, or protection from the
weather, or unnecessarily and cruelly neglects to properly care for such
person, shall be imprisoned not more than one year or fined not more than
$200.00, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)